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Should Touch Screen Tablets Be Used to Improve Educational Outcomes in Primary School Children in Developing Countries? [PDF]
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development aims to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all” (United Nations, 2015).
Hubber PJ +5 more
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Bray, M. (2009). Confronting the shadow education system: what government policies for what private tutoring? Paris: International Institute for Educational Planning. [Book review] [PDF]
Book review of: Bray, M. (2009). Confronting the shadow education system: what government policies for what private tutoring? Paris: International Institute for Educational Planning.
Askerc, Katarina +1 more
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The general consensus in the field is that when the home language is different from the language of instruction in school then children's literacy attainments could slow down. In this 26‐year review of the literature on children's literacy attainments in low‐ to middle‐income countries, 40 correlational, ethnographic and intervention studies provide ...
Sonali Nag +3 more
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Literacy Practices and Schooling: A Case Study from Mozambique [PDF]
A novel approach to the assessment of literacy is used to tackle the issue of effectiveness of years of schooling. The dichotomy inherent in the literacy rate is rejected in favor of a " practice-based" approach, which considers literacy as a ...
Esposito, L., Kebede, B., Maddox, B.
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Unwanted Literal Translation: An Underdiscussed Problem in International Achievement Studies
In international achievement studies, a common test is typically used which is translated into the languages of the participating countries. For the test to be valid, all the translations and different‐language test versions need to be equally difficult to read and answer. An underestimated and underdiscussed threat to this validity is unwanted literal
Inga Arffman, Gwo-Jen Hwang
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How effective are poor schools? Poverty and educational outcomes in South Africa [PDF]
There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity ...
van der Berg, Servaas
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ABSTRACT This study examined how beginner teachers integrate language teaching into content subjects after their initial teacher education (ITE). Grounded in a blend of pedagogical theories, sociocultural perspectives, and reflective practice frameworks, it examined the experiences of 10 participants from a previous 2021 study when they were pre ...
Nhlanhla Mpofu
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Campbell Systematic Reviews, Volume 13, Issue 1, Page 1-82, 2017.
Birte Snilstveit +8 more
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Economic freedom and the quality of education
Abstract This paper finds robust evidence that economic freedom improves the quality of education. This is probably mainly because economic freedom incentivizes parents to invest in high‐quality education for their children and helps them to do so. It also incentivizes and helps both governments and private providers to deliver high‐quality education ...
Horst Feldmann
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Campbell Systematic Reviews, Volume 10, Issue 1, Page 1-46, 2014.
Roy Carr‐Hill +3 more
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